Giving "preferred response" - anyone else do this?

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loner1984
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04 Jul 2012, 1:59 pm

Think that has always been my problem, i say what i mean no matter what, if something takes like crap, i will say that.

I wont lie to make other people happy. If they dont like my honest opinion well tbh thats their problem.

When i ask people about something i expect a damn honest answer, nothing more nothing less. Its not like im gonna be sad people they dont like something i made or anything.

But again maybe that is one of the reasons i dont have any friends haha.



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04 Jul 2012, 2:13 pm

I do something like that in small talk conversations.
I seem to be liked by everyone who talks to me and I think it is because I compensate my social instinct with pattern analysis. So, naturally, the result of my constant analysing their behaviour and possible reactions is that I react the way I think they expect. That makes me a very likeable and nice person from their point of view.
I don't do that, however, because I want them to see me like that, but because that makes social interaction more predictable and my processing easier. By now that is an automated process.

Except when it touches special interests or turns into an argument, then I just talk until everyone else gives up. Without meaning to.. I can't help it.



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04 Jul 2012, 3:02 pm

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